Okay, so the Oklahoma City government is going to let a satanic group hold their black mass at what the article calls a small theater. Now, one could make the argument that this is a religious event (it is) and it should not be allowed on public property. Certainly religious groups have been told that separation of church and state means they can’t utilize public property to promote their religion and they’d be correct. If, yes if, the taxpayers were forced to fund such a thing then, no, it shouldn’t be allowed because that could be considered government endorsement.

There are spaces that are owned by the taxpayers (not government because government has no money) where Christian plays and religious displays are held. As long as the people involved are paying for the use of the land and not the taxpayers then I don’t care (Santa Monica, CA around Christmas for one). If Christians want to put on a fucking ‘birth of Christ’ play in a public school, fine by me, just make sure that no children are forced to attend it and that they pay for the use of the facilities.

Well, the satanic folks (they’re as retarded as any believer) are paying to lease the theater to put on their little black mass thingy. Get over it. Personally I find all of this quite entertaining because Christians have been doing shit like this my whole life and they’ve not been paying to use the public schools or the city hall. They just have a majority so they force their version of religious retardation upon the rest of us. Ha ha!

That said, scrolling through the comments (why do I do this to myself) one finds the total and complete hypocrisy from America’s phony followers of the Prince of Peace. They make a whole lot of stink about this little black mass being a signal of some kind for the end times. I didn’t manage to find one comment from the Christians about the awfulness of America’s warmongering and foreign policy of domination. Nothing about torturing people and holding them in Gitmo for years without charge. Nope. Christian America seems to not notice, or actively support, the murder of little foreign children and other innocents, but a satanic ritual? God forbid.

‘This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated.” -General Martin E. Dempsey, U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ‘

So, pretty much the same US evangelical Christian outlook, vis-a-vis, doing whatever it takes to defend the racist, genocidal government in Israel huh?

Anywho. Hey look at this, Business Insider (fascist, warmongering, neo-con mouthpiece) says that we (United States) now cannot separate the war in Iraq from the civil war in Syria, but that we can’t work with Assad because:

‘The administration is adamant that it will not work with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has allowed ISIS to thrive while bombing and torturing Syrians on an industrial scale throughout the war.’

I’m sorry, what? Assad has allowed ISIS to thrive? ISIS is exactly who Assad has been fighting and he hasn’t allowed them to thrive so much as the US has armed and schooled these terrorists in the hopes they’d bring Assad down. Now that that plan has torn a whole in the neo-con rectum, they blame Assad. I see.

Oh, the neo-cons are also back on that ‘Assad tortured his own people’ bit only this time they have a photographer. The photographer in question was with the Syrian Army (using air quotes with that) and he defected to the West.

Wait a sec, this sounds familiar. Oh yeah. Wasn’t this the same set-up used by Curveball to sell the Iraq war? As a matter of fact, it is. The Iraqi defector code-named Curveball, sold GWB everything he wanted in order to justify invading Iraq and we all know how well that worked out. To this day, the fucking chickenhawk, warmongering neo-cons refuse to take responsibility for that and now they want to do it all over again.

The question again is, are American’s stupid enough to fall for the same lies?

Are American’s stupid enough to fall for the ‘WMD’ claim a second time? I ask myself this not as a literal regarding the phoney WMD story that the previous administration concocted to drive America into an illegal, immoral, and frankly stupid war in Iraq, but rather as a ‘can they be fooled again?’ Sadly, the answer to this question seems to be yes. They can be fooled again and yes, they are that stupid.

Ukraine. A country that a majority of American’s probably have no idea where it is, nor any idea of it’s history. Think about this:

Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush 1. All of these men were president during the Cold War. A time when Russia was actually our enemy and not one of them gave a shit about Ukraine. Now, all of a sudden, Ukraine is super important. Why?

Well, there’s this story over at Fox about a US citizen with Ukrainian heritage who went over there to join the fight against those horrible Russian backed separatists (as opposed to the US backed neo-nazi’s and fascists in Kiev) who was killed.

‘Paslawsky had been interviewed by Vice News earlier this month while he was in the Lunansk region with the Donbas Battalion. He told the news site that he had decided to join the cause and fight against the Russian-backed separatist movement because of his family’s Ukrainian background and frustration over the Russian takeover of the Crimea peninsula.’

Curious. When exactly did the Russian’s ‘takeover’ Crimea? There’s been a naval base there for about as long as the US has existed and it’s pretty much always been Russian. Crimea itself was not part of Ukraine, but was autonomous and after the US backed coup in Kiev, the vast majority of people in Crimea who also happen to be ethnic Russian, voted to join Russia. How in the world can anybody classify that as a Russian takeover? I guess in a haphazard and roundabout way, you could say the Russian’s strong armed the vote. Of course, that didn’t happen, but the US media being what it is and all…

Victoria Nuland, Obama’s fascistic neocon in the State Department, stated outright that the US invested $5 billion in Ukraine for ‘democracy building.’ That’s also curious considering the former president of Ukraine was duly elected in free and open elections. Was he corrupt? Sure, but so is the US government.

US media is ignoring the fact that the previous president was democratically elected, while supplying the narrative that this new government, their little puppet, is totally and perfectly legitimate. They spout whatever the US government tells them to spout and the American people, too ignorant, poorly educated, and plain stupid, believe it.

Ukraine says it destroyed a Russian convoy that crossed into Ukraine. That’s neat, but there’s absolutely no evidence to support this claim. The US (and Western) media reported this as a fact, despite the lack of any evidence. You see what they’re doing don’t you? It makes it that much easier to transition to ‘Russia invaded Ukraine.’

They already did that with Crimea except Russia never invaded Crimea because they didn’t need to. There were already Russian troops in Crimea as part of the lease agreement for the naval base. Oh, and there was no violence in Crimea after the vote to join the Russian Federation.

The US made wild claims that Russia was behind the shooting down of the Malaysian passenger plane over Ukraine. They provided no evidence of this despite the fact that US spy satellites are all over the place recording every fucking move everybody makes. For it’s part Russia released the evidence it collected then, like magic, the US position changed to Russia having no involvement in it.

The government in Kiev, you know, the one backed by the US, confiscated the air-traffic control tapes regarding the MH-17 crash. What’s on those recordings? There’s the nasty, inconvenient speculation, backed by some evidence, that MH-17 wasn’t shot down by a surface-to-air missile, but was shot down by another aircraft. Those ‘Russian backed separatists’ don’t have an air force. Kiev, on the other hand does have an air force, and they had fighters trailing the passenger plane.

Don’t expect any of this to be broadcast on Fox News or CNN, or any of the other pitiful excuses for ‘news’ in America.

You’d think that after we were lied to about Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and god knows what else, we would, as a nation, be skeptical. You’d think and you’d be wrong. Perusing any number of articles about Ukraine and trolling through the comments you’ll find that not only are American’s willing to be duped yet again, but they embrace these lies wholeheartedly.

The saying of America as the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’ is 100% bullshit. First, there are thousands of laws forbidding us from doing this or that with the promise of caging us like animals if we don’t do as told. Second, you can’t truly be free when the reality you live in is like the matrix. Almost nothing our government tells us is true, and that means the narrative as presented by the media is also false.

As for bravery? Everybody knows that bullies are cowards and everybody knows that America is the biggest fucking bully on Earth. You do the math.

I gained a little faith in my fellow countrymen and women when they stood up and demanded we stay out of Syria. I’ve lost that faith yet again as they allow themselves to be duped into believing the obvious lies about Ukraine and Russia.

So I just learned that the Freedom From Religion Foundation issued a letter to the US Navy instructing them to remove the bibles placed by Gideon’s in their hotels. Wait, what? Seriously. This is what they’re up to now?

I paid a visit to the FFRF website and found a page dedicated to this issue titled, ‘Atheists come out of foxholes to fight Navy bibles.’ Then there were some letters by former Navy people who were most upset and offended by the presence of a bible in a hotel room.

Okay, first off, they aren’t ‘Navy bibles’, they’re bibles that the Gideon’s donated and placed in the rooms. Secondly, it’s a fucking book. Does renting the room come with some military god squad who force you to read passages of this most offensive of books under penalty of death? Well no. Like any other hotel/motel there’s a bible in a drawer and if you choose to read it great, if not, no skin off your ball sack.

Take this letter:

‘Dear Director Bockleman,

I served in the active USNR in 1945-1946 and also in the Reserve from 1946 to 1950, with Honorable discharge. I wish to protest the Navy’s support of placing bibles or any other religious material of any sort in any facility associated with the Navy. And also, to extend this further while I’m at it, to protest any religious proselytizing on any occasion by Navy personnel under color of uniform. Long-held readings of our Constitution clearly preclude the Navy from participating in such activity, it should cease immediately, and in fact it should nave not been countenanced at any time in my view. And by the way I have held such a view for the past 75-odd years.

Sincerely,

Kennan C. Herrick (Jr.)

(Son of the late Kennan C. Herrick, also an Honorable Navy veteran.)

California’

So Mr. Kennan C. Herrick (Jr.) (part of the ‘greatest generation’) wishes to protest the placing of bibles or any other religious material in any facility associated with the Navy and he’d like to protest any proselytizing of Navy personnel while in uniform. Obviously, proselytizing while on duty should be taken on a case-by-case basis. Is the person doing the bible thumping going to withhold a promotion unless you come to Jesus or is it a case of two friends chatting and one want’s the other to come to church with him? If it’s in an official capacity then of course that should be condemned, just as it should in any business environment. If it’s the latter then it really isn’t any of Mr. Kennan C. Herrick (Jr.)’s fucking business.

As for the bibles in these rooms offending him? You know what offends me Mr. greatest generation? Knowing that my paycheck is robbed to subsidize your fucking retirement and knowing that as a forty-four year old there’s not a hope in hell I’ll ever see a nickel of the SS money I pay. Oh, yeah. I also happen to be offended by the Navy Tomahawk missiles that blow the hell out of infrastructure and kill people in far away lands that pose no threat to me, you, or the US in general.

Does it offend you Mr. Kennan C. Herrick (Jr.) that the President of the United States has given himself and those who follow, the power to issue a death warrant to anybody, anywhere, at anytime, and without ever providing a single document of evidence of criminal behavior?

How about another?

‘Dear Mr. Bockelman,

As a USCG Lt Jg. for 3 years I felt proud to help our great country protect itself and other worthy countries. As a non-believer it never occurred to me that any governmental agency would promote any religion whatsoever. Thus to find out the US Navy has been providing Christian bibles in its hotel rooms is a disgrace. Every person has a right to believe as they see fit and not be harassed by biased influence.

I expect to hear shortly that the US Navy has realized its error and has removed the bibles.

Yours truly,

James B. Gordon’

First James, I’m not entirely sure who you think you protected this ‘great country’ from, but lets move on. James says that it never occurred to him that any government agency would promote any religion whatsoever. Really? I guess James isn’t aware of the fact that Congress is always praying to their little God of Abraham before they decide to let whatever shithead happens to occupy the Oval Office bomb the shit out of little children in some poverty ridden country American’s can’t locate on a map.

Bibles in a hotel room is a disgrace James? Disgrace? How about lying to the entire world about non-existent WMD’s? How does being responsible for the death of half a million children sit on your disgrace meter James? If I recall Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeline Albright said that the death of those children was worth it to contain Saddam. Contain him from what? Taking back the oil America’s buddies in Kuwait were stealing from Iraq?

There are more letters and they contain the same juvenile and stupid remarks. Look, if the Navy engages in proselytizing the way the Air Force has been doing, by all means complain away, but shit, it’s a fucking book in a nightstand drawer that you can choose not to read.

I said before when FFRF decided to expose their left-wing political bias after the Hobby Lobby case that they used to be a dignified organization who were simply attempting to separate any official endorsement of religion. Now? They’re just a bunch of bitchy little progressives who can’t stand that someone, somewhere might take comfort in the rather naive and simple-minded stories in an ancient book.

The Constitution forbids the government or it’s entities from endorsing a particular religion. Allowing a third party to put bibles in a hotel room? Is this an official endorsement? Considering the Navy instructed it’s people serving Muslim countries to dress more conservatively (so as not to insult) during Ramadan and that most branches asked that it’s members not eat in front of Muslims (in the US or on US bases) during Ramadan, I hardly think little bibles that nobody is forcing anybody to read is an endorsement.